Another potential place for accidents is that all students who are dropped off by car now need to cross the two-directional bicycle path as there is no curbside drop-off area on the right side of 41st Street.

I’d like to add to this report by expressing my disapproval with the updated traffic management on 41st St.? The condensing of traffic into one lane on one side of the street is causing a significantly increased risk to pedestrians (comprised of school children) crossing the street. Furthermore, this appears to be exacerbating congestion on adjacent street.

I’d like for city planning to explore other options that take greater consideration of local pedestrian foot traffic.

While I appreciate the city’s efforts to both slow traffic and reduce incidents of drivers going the wrong way I think the redesign of 41st st has unintentionally added new safety problems. When exiting the drivers or drivers side rear door, drivers and passengers alike are forced to step into traffic. Given the narrow lane created between parked cars by the new street design it is often impossible to avoid standing in the middle of traffic. Had the design left for additional buffer between the loading zone and traffic lane this problem could have been avoided.

Please consider sacrificing one lane of the bicycle highway (to nowhere?) on the northernmost part of the street, to be used as buffer on the south side of the automobile loading zone. This would allow more space for drivers to open doors and space for pedestrian visibility.

Another parent of a child attending the school who finds the new set up bewildering. I can only imagine how disruptive this set up is to the people who live on that street. I generally support more bike lanes, but these seem to do nothing for almost non-existent bikers. My child has been run into by cyclists, who very often, seem to have no regard for traffic safety nor pedestrians. The bike lanes are particularly impractical.
40th Street has bike lanes, 43rd street has bike signiage. 41st does not need exclusive bike lanes for the duration of that block. A place where 2 to18 year olds are frequently crossing the street should not be a place for cyclists to get their own lanes.

I’m also a parent at EBGIS and have had to circle the block 3-4x as the available parking has decreased by many fold. This is a severe traffic problem. This creates bad drivers. Which I feel is less safe for kids. Today one parent was even parking on the sidewalk.

We ride bikes approximately once a week and have never felt that we needed our own bike lane.

I am also a parent at Ebgis who needs to drag her baby and toddler in/out of the car every morning, and an architect by profession, and the new layout is extremely impractical and dangerous. To a degree that I though it was a temporary setup during a nearby construction! Cannot believe someone thought this was an improvement. The logistics of getting in an out of the car with children on such a narrow street aside, parking spots being reduced means I drive around in loops, too, and get angry at the situation. This is so pointless. It was working just fine before, now dropoff and pickups are a nightmare. I’d like to know how soon the street can be reverted back to original. Perhaps over winter break so that it doesn’t disrupt the school any more than it already has. I incidentally live by a corner of Oakland where we begged for a stop sign for months, and after a car accident one weekend, we had a stop sign installed next week, so I know things can get done quickly when people get hurt. I hope this issue gets resolved without anyone getting hurt.

Besides being a parent at EBGIS, we are a family of avid and passionate bicyclists - we ride our bikes to school on most days and I'm the first one to applaud new bike lanes. I want more bike lanes and this is not a "NIMBY" issue for me. Still, the changes seem quite counter-productive:

In its current form, the bike traffic will be between kids going in and out of parents' cars, which are bike/kids accidents, and probably lawsuits, waiting to happen.

In addition, the number of "real" parking spaces seems much reduced, which among other things is unhelpful for the teachers at the school.

It would seem like there is a solution that would both (1) establish a robust new bike lane, while also (2) preserving parking spaces and avoiding kids having to cross bike lanes:

* establish new bike lane(s) on the Southern side of 41st Street
* establish 45 degree diagonal parking on the Northern (school-facing) side of the street - both for school pickup/dropoff, but also for teachers
* keep a normal one-way car lane in between

Why not do it this way? Is there any downside to that approach?

I feel very unsafe dropping off and picking up my kid from EBGIS. I am forced to open my driver’s door into traffic to walk out of my car. The cars are still speeding down the 41st street. Please consider having designated drop-off lane immediately adjacent to school.

City Manager's Office - LL assigned this issue to Emeryville Public Works – RO

I am a parent at EBGIS who regularly drops off and picks up on 41st Street, and the new lane markings are markedly worse than what was there before. The new lane markers are incredibly inefficient because they bottleneck traffic during peak times by creating long lines of cars blocked from driving down the street by cars trying to parallel park. Imagine 100+ cars all trying to drop off in a 20-minute period with lots of little kids to unbuckle and preschoolers age 2-5 to walk into school. Traffic jam!

The lane markings have also dramatically reduced the number of spaces available on the street. Why didn't the city at least create angled parking to fit more cars?

By forcing the parking spots into the middle of the street, it also feels more dangerous because we have little kids exiting the car very close to moving traffic now since the driving lane is so narrow. I have to unbuckle my daughter from the car seat next to traffic with the door open and I feel much more vulnerable to getting hit. This doesn't feel safe to be so close to the cars driving inches away.

Also, why is there so much room for a bike lane just on this one section of 41st street? I'm all for bike transport, but it seems like the bike lane was designed to just take up room, and there are no lanes linking it anywhere before or after this 1 block. It just doesn't make sense that such a big bike lane is needed.

Please re-think this lane marking since even if there were good intentions to prevent cars driving the wrong way down the street, you have made it much worse in terms of overall safety and efficiency.